Homemade Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips

Guys has it been a week or WHAT. And it’s not even over yet! Being an accountant, the couple of days after month end are usually an adventure, and usually not the fun kind of adventure. I think no less than ten times this week I’ve wished I could clone myself so I could be working on three things at once. And after a long work day, was I really going to come home and jump right into washing the dishes and other house chores?? Forgetttaboutit!

What gets me through weeks like this are snacks. Lots of snacks! In fact I noticed today little granola pieces have found their way into far corners of my desk and a few stepped on Cheerios have ground themselves into the carpet. Whoooops! Knowing I had a week ahead of me, I whipped up one of my favorite snacks as a little incentive to keep chugging along – homemade cinnamon sugar pita chips.

Come to mama!

I must be on a four ingredient kick this week (see also this blueberry chia seed jam), because these pita chips are as simple to make as anything. Because snacks with a little staying power generally serve me better than empty carb calories, I used whole wheat pitas – use whatever type you prefer! Either butter OR coconut oil work great here, so that’s up to you, too. I made half of this batch with butter and the other half with coconut oil and mixed up the chips for the pictures. Bet you can’t tell the difference!

Not to overly complicate things here, but I do suggest mixing together the sugar and cinnamon and then sprinkling it over the pita chips vs. sprinkling the sugar and then sprinkling cinnamon. This helps evenly disperse both the sugar and cinnamon over the pita chips, and works to prevent those moments where you bang a little too hard on the cinnamon shaker and way too much cinnamon comes pouring out all at once and totally covers whatever it is you were seasoning. Don’t tell me that only happens to me…

Check the video below to see how simple these cinnamon sugar pita chips are!

Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray with cooking spray. Cut each pita into eight equally-sized wedges. In a small bowl, stir together the granulated sugar and cinnamon.

Brush both sides of each pita wedge with melted butter (or coconut oil, if using). Sprinkle cinnamon/sugar mixture evenly over both sides of the pita wedges, and place on baking sheet in a single layer.

Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until wedges have crisped up to your liking. Let cool and enjoy!

Recipe Notes

All ovens are different, so you may wish to start checking on the pitas after a few minutes to help prevent them from burning.

If your oven tends to run hot, you may wish to reduce the oven temperature to 375 or 350 degrees for baking, and then leave the pita chips in until crisp to your liking.

Just made these. Delicious! However, at 400 degrees and 12 minutes, they burnt. I turned oven back to 350, put in for 6 minutes, checked them, shook the pan a little, and went back in for 3 minutes. Turned out perfect!! Thanks for recipe! Will make again.

Hi Elaine! These pita chips should be good for at least a few days. I recommend making sure they’re fairly crispy (to your liking, of course) and letting them cool completely. Then I’d store them in an air-tight container at room temperature. I hope you enjoy!!

May I ask what is pita rounds? I mean, what kind of dough is that? Here in Croatia we don’t have nothing like that so I would try prepare homemade. Is that something similar with tortillas? Is there somewhere recipe for it? Thank! Great idea snack with cinnamon. I adore cinnamon and everything with cinnamon.. <3

I bet you’ll love them Ashley! And oh man this weekend was great. Not too much of anything planned and it was sunny when we ate dinner tonight. What more could I want? Haha hope you had a great one too!

Snacks are definitely the way to make hellish weeks feel better! Especially when they look as delicious as these pita chips do. Oh what wouldn’t I give for a handful (read:bucket) of these while I do math revision ;(
Hope you get some relax soon girl! xxx

Haha oh girl, these are essential accompaniments for work, especially math! 🙂 Thanks Consuelo, I hope university is awesome and you get a break from all that hard work soon!! P.S. I think I’ll be dreaming of your brownie cake tonight!

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